The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described ?conceivers? who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in... more...

An NYRB Classics Original The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky?s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky?s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves... more...